North Dakota tribes seek review of pipelines under reservoir

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An oil-rich group of American Indian tribes in North Dakota has asked a federal appeals court to quickly decide whether a Texas company needed tribal permission to place a pair of pipelines 100 feet beneath a Missouri River reservoir.

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation asked the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' three-judge panel Wednesday to expedite their review of the Sacagawea pipeline because it "raises issues of unusual magnitude and urgency." The tribes say they own mineral rights under Lake Sakakawea and were not assured that the water would not be harmed by the pipeline.

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